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Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

after he was elected vice president and I had not supported him for the presidential nomination in 1960, I went up to see him and said, IILook, you Ire the vice president, and 11m with you and I will work with you a hundred per cent. II Liz Carpenter, I

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the idea to him. I worked with him and worked with Liz Carpenter on it a bit, on how weld get around the tennis shoe ladies and how weld make it a big national issue rather than a petty thing of a few women IS groups. He had the big view

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KILPATRICK -- I -- 13 time President Johnson, Liz Carpenter, or anybody else in the world gives an exclusive and makes somebody very happy that he annoys ten times as many people

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-league steps and got on board, and we got underway. I think Liz Carpenter was there, I'm not sure about that. But in any event we shoved off and noticed as we looked around that there were a few little boats trailing us, namely Secret Service in their own

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

headed that? O: Well, there were several Johnson women involved. Liz [Carpenter] was very much involved. G: Lindy Boggs. O: Lindy Boggs. G: Scooter Miller, wasn't she? O: Yes, I was thinking of Scooter. Bess Abell. She was very good

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

buying paintings? sequentially when trips took place, but I think the time when we went to Beirut as the first stop, and I guess that was the Middle Eastern trip, I think that was the trip that I was told by Liz Carpenter that the [Vice] President

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Petersburg, and they were in the news paper business there, the Congressional Quarterl , and they were friends of Mrs . [Liz] Carpenter, so she had gone out to their house to rest a little while in the afternoon . F: All of this took place at St

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the women who were lobbying against this; I think [by] Liz Carpenter, who was a newslady from Arkansas at that particular time, but a friend of the Johnsons. But I think the women were the ones that were for beauti- fication, and I remember on several

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

number of newspaper people's houses, to the Carpenters' of course, and to Marshall McNeils'. And then the glittering side of life I got into by an occasional dinner at the F Street Club. Senator Millard Tydings, who was chairman of Lyndon's committee

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on and makes you feel all right after all. F: He neyer himself seems to have any carry-over of that ill feeling. I mean, it's out of his system, and he's through with it. W: I think so. It disturbed me for a while. I too!( Liz Carpenter back to town one

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Johnson. And the new President of course wanted all of his people on--Liz Carpenter, everybody who was traveling with him. Then he authorized people like Jack Valenti who had simply been riding in the motorcade, didn't even have a toothbrush with him

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 12 had about, I think there was four houses on it. One of them was Aunt Frank's; one of them was Uncle Tom's; up there where Liz Martin [lived], who died

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had come for them to go--forcefully, if necessary. There was no question in my mind that they were going. I determined that I was going to push very hard to bring things to an end because we could not continue the chaos. Liz Carpenter, whom you know

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 8 rejected~ everything. know him that well. That's one thing he is going to read, and I So when Liz Carpenter left my name off, he is going to see

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in the first car and I was about three or four cars-because whenever there was an official ceremony like this the press people had to be up forward. Liz Carpenter was up forward, etc., and I always stayed out of the way. Oh, about eight miles out we began

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with the Johnsons. Liz and Les Carpenter carne out to do an interview for Collierls, and I remember in the pictures so they were there for the interviel", Dorothy Nichols, G!ynn.·' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

was taken in ultimately by Liz Carpenter who had to show her White House pass, not her convention credentials, but her White House pass, to get in, so there was tension from this source. But this was a source tangential to the convention and not within

Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the whole period was so expansive that while we kept in touch with her--and Liz Carpenter was just enormously helpful in sort of opening doors and all--that it just never seemed to be necessary. Now it may be that it wasn't necessary because she

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these guys went out and just worked like hell for him. ;: . .. You had an anecdote you were going to tell. Yes. i: Yes. . .. If you get a chance, read Liz Carpenter's book. Did you read about men who make advances? Have you read

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of groups. I had been conned into doing an appeal for the United Fund in Akron which is something that doesn't fit into this job. Liz Carpenter asked me, and I didn't dare say no. always turned those meetings inside out. So I did that. But I When I

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 And the utilities in my section of the country like TP&L, were very cooperative with rural electrification. Mr. Carpenter and Bill Lynch were the ones who were running

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ever gave them an answer. I mean, he might say something, but it didn't mean anything, and Liz and Les Carpenter wrote it up word for word. If you haven't read it, you ought to find it. Have you read it? It was printed in the newspapers. It was the most

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the reporters in the train were female, and Liz [Carpenter] had fixed it up with all kinds of frou-frou signs about no sharing a compartment with a male roommate, or anything like that, and all this typically feminine stuff. And if there was one masculine man

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and I did. Mrs. Humphrey was there and Liz Carpenter. This was a part of Mrs. Johnson's Crossroads America Tour in the fall of 1967. outstandingly beautiful area of about 18,000 acres. Sylvania is an It was purchased to add to the Ottawa National

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington when Johnson was vice president I went to a party one evening out at Liz Carpenter's house. I had not long before read Ted White's book, The Making of a President, 1960, and he has in there a version of how the Johnson selection as vice president

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

n k , very wisely staying out of all comment and all dealings with the press. M: Did you have any indication of any experience of frustration on Mr. Johnson's part about the impotency of the vice presidency? B: I had one. Liz Carpenter

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson